Op-Eds which regularly appear on the editorial pages of daily newspapers are opinion pieces which are written with the intention of influencing readers. On Tuesday, August 30, the Charleston Gazette-Mail published an Op-Ed titled: “Mainline Christians must retake the church from evangelicals.”

I found the title revealing in that it assigned ownership of the church to a group of individuals — evangelicals. Evangelicals, as the name suggests, are believers who seek to produce more believers.…